José García Villa

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José García Villa (1953)
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José García Villa (1953)

José García Villa (1908-1997) Filipino poet, critic, painter, and short story writer. He founded Clay, a literary magazine in the University of New Mexico. He was also awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken.

Some of his works include the following:

  • the erotic poetic series Man Songs (1929)
  • the short story Mir-i-Nisa (1929)
  • short stories Footnote to Youth

"A young man" (1933)

  • poems Have Come Am Here (1941)